(sorry to send it twice, Rainer, but once more for the greater list)
I would suggest the article by Crawford Young in Vol. 52 #1 of the LSA
Quarterly:
"Tablature before 1400? Reflections on Lute-specific notation and
Boethian roots"
Sean
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On Sun, Oct 7, 2018
A few remarks:
- saying that Paumann was "credited for having invented tablature" is
slightly missleading.
Virdung reports that he invented german lute tablature (which is utterly
unuseable for
playing keyboard). German lute tablature is indeed very convenient to
read/dictate to
Ron, Rainer and All,
Cabezon's works were notated in tablature. Like Paumann, he was blind.
His works were advertised as also playable on harp or vihuela.
Jim Stimson
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Original message
From: Ron Andrico
This is untrue. There were other types of keyboard tablature, such as the
Spanish tablature used by Cabezón in which the staff comprised as many lines as
there were voices (the duos only having two lines, for example) and the notes
were indicated with numbers 1 to 7, to which signs were added
Dear lute netters,
I have often asked myselfe why lute tablature was invented.
The "classical" answer seems to be because lutenists started to play polyphonic
music (or at least music with more than one voice).
This seems to be a very poor argument since - apart from German organ tablature
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